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USDA's
Food Safety and Inspection Service has posted on its Web
site the first Humane Interactive Knowledge Exchange scenario
in three years that is not a draft posted for the purposes
of public comment. To read it, click here.
The scenario, laying out a hypothetical situation involving
double stunning of animals during the slaughter process,
is intended to help inspectors and facility personnel make
best practices decisions regarding the humane handling of
animals. It also is intended to help agency and company
personnel make decisions regarding which reports to make,
when and under which circumstances.
Until this latest scenario was posted, the most recent scenario
available dated to 2005. That scenario addressed the Poultry
Product Inspection Act, and when a poultry product is to
be considered adulterated, if the poultry died by some means
other than by slaughter.
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